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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Taltos do when a member of their race dies?
(a) They burn the body.
(b) They send the body back to their home planet ot be revived.
(c) They couple to create another Taltos.
(d) They kill a human to journey in spirit with the Taltos.

2. Why did many Taltos leave their paradise?
(a) It was found by humans.
(b) It became boring.
(c) It became chaotic.
(d) It was too crowded.

3. What is the clacking noise the doctor hears as he is preparing to leave?
(a) A young woman using an electric knitting machine.
(b) A duck that is sitting on the porch.
(c) A young woman typing on a computer.
(d) An automatic sewing machine.

4. What happens to Taltos women who gave birth too often?
(a) Nothing.
(b) They become barren.
(c) They die.
(d) They become insane.

5. What does Ash take from the Catholic church?
(a) The advice to move elsewhere.
(b) Restitution for the attack.
(c) Holy orders.
(d) Lessons.

6. With whom does Ash leave the Taltos paradise?
(a) Just with one son.
(b) He left by himself.
(c) Two of his daughers and three other Taltos.
(d) Just with his wife.

7. What does Marklin do after using Tommy's lighter?
(a) Scream.
(b) Cry.
(c) Kill himself.
(d) Laugh.

8. What does Ash's group of Taltos do when they come to live among the humans?
(a) Try to marry into the human race.
(b) Invent human identities.
(c) Keep their appearance altered magically.
(d) Nothing different.

9. Where do Ash and the other Taltos with him eventually settle?
(a) North America.
(b) Britian.
(c) France.
(d) Greece.

10. What does Marklin find when he uses Tommy's lighter?
(a) Strange, alien creatures.
(b) Human bones.
(c) Snakes.
(d) Spiders.

11. What makes a coupling Taltos pair end the coupling?
(a) Nothing in particular.
(b) They hear a voice in their head.
(c) They fall asleep for days.
(d) The baby is ready to be born.

12. What does the doctor insist upon doing?
(a) Calling an ambulance.
(b) Being paid in cash.
(c) Examining Mona.
(d) Seeing Mary Jane's identification.

13. What is Mary Jane carrying in her basket?
(a) Several bottles of champagne.
(b) A picnic lunch.
(c) A puppy.
(d) A baby.

14. Why is Mona having trouble walking?
(a) She sprained her ankle.
(b) Her pregnancy is very advanced.
(c) She has no shoes on and the ground is rocky.
(d) She pulled a muscle in her calf.

15. Why was childbirth serious among the Taltos?
(a) It took weeks of labor.
(b) It could create an insane child.
(c) It was considered a sacred act.
(d) It involved pain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Mary Jane suggest they go?

2. What does Mona ask Morrigan at the opening to Chapter Twenty?

3. What do the humans who live near the Taltos village ask the Taltos?

4. What happened to human women who mated with Taltos males?

5. Whose church becomes very popular with the humans?

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